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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-06-05 11:20:33 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2013-06-05 23:35:56 +0100
commit509eb76ebf9771abc9fe51859382df2571f11447 (patch)
treea5745368df4dbe458dc4de5fa63778e9b8cda2cc /arch
parentced2a3b84965f1be8b6a142d6029faf241f109af (diff)
ARM: 7747/1: pcpu: ensure __my_cpu_offset cannot be re-ordered across barrier()
__my_cpu_offset is non-volatile, since we want its value to be cached when we access several per-cpu variables in a row with preemption disabled. This means that we rely on preempt_{en,dis}able to hazard with the operation via the barrier() macro, so that we can't end up migrating CPUs without reloading the per-cpu offset. Unfortunately, GCC doesn't treat a "memory" clobber on a non-volatile asm block as a side-effect, and will happily re-order it before other memory clobbers (including those in prempt_disable()) and cache the value. This has been observed to break the cmpxchg logic in the slub allocator, leading to livelock in kmem_cache_alloc in mainline kernels. This patch adds a dummy memory input operand to __my_cpu_offset, forcing it to be ordered with respect to the barrier() macro. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h
index 968c0a14e0a3..209e6504922e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -30,8 +30,15 @@ static inline void set_my_cpu_offset(unsigned long off)
static inline unsigned long __my_cpu_offset(void)
{
unsigned long off;
- /* Read TPIDRPRW */
- asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c13, c0, 4" : "=r" (off) : : "memory");
+ register unsigned long *sp asm ("sp");
+
+ /*
+ * Read TPIDRPRW.
+ * We want to allow caching the value, so avoid using volatile and
+ * instead use a fake stack read to hazard against barrier().
+ */
+ asm("mrc p15, 0, %0, c13, c0, 4" : "=r" (off) : "Q" (*sp));
+
return off;
}
#define __my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset()